yeartime

yeartime means seasonal. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.

Etymology

From year + time, or revived from Middle English yer tyme (“yearly commemoration”) (which did not directly survive into Modern English). Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.

adj

Seasonal.“yeartime variance”
Of or pertaining to the timespan of a year or years; yearly.“To see how valuable a consumer segment really is, calculating such a yeartime value is obviously not sufficient.”

noun

A time of the year; a season.“Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless [...]”
A year's time; the space of time equivalent to a year.“[...] even beetle — these thousands of pads in a yeartime of life — had matted the moss and nettle, [...]”